London Bridge terror attack hero Geoff Ho has revealed how a friend urged him not to close his eyes as he feared death in the moments after the killers slashed his throat.

In his first interview since the atrocity, the Sunday Express business editor also revealed the moment he came face-to-face with the attackers as they slashed his Adam's apple and stabbed him in the stomach.

He had been eating in a restaurant when the attackers stormed the venue, ordering people to get down on the ground.

But Ho said he felt this was the moment he decided he had to act as people would have been "dead instantly" if they did as told.